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Lead: Tonight and throughout June 2026, observers worldwide can catch a rapid sequence of lunar phases, planetary pairings and seasonal targets from the bright Venus–Jupiter approach to the full moon on June 29. Key highlights include close passes (Mercury with M35 on June 2), a tight Venus–Jupiter conjunction (1.5° on June 9), a rare daylight … Read more

Lead: Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo report 282 confirmed Ebola cases as of early June 2026, with the outbreak concentrated in eastern Ituri province. The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited a new treatment centre in Bunia on Sunday, May 31, and recognized several health workers who survived infection. Authorities … Read more

Lead In Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities say at least 282 confirmed cases of Ebola have been identified as the outbreak remains concentrated in the east. Health officials report 264 of those confirmed infections are in Ituri, and the outbreak has so far killed 42 people in Congo and one in neighboring … Read more

Lead Serena Williams, 44, has announced she will return to professional tennis next week at the Queen’s Club WTA 500 event in west London, entering the doubles draw with a wildcard. The former world No. 1 has not played since the 2022 US Open, where she described stepping away as “evolving away” rather than formally … Read more

On Monday, U.S. equities were mixed as energy prices spiked and technology stocks posted selective gains. The S&P 500 traded near unchanged while the Dow fell about 0.4% after a slide of roughly 231 points; the Nasdaq was also close to flat. Oil benchmarks jumped—West Texas Intermediate rose about 7% to near $94 a barrel … Read more

On Saturday at 2:06 p.m., a roughly 1‑metre (3ft) wide meteoroid entered Earth’s atmosphere near the New Hampshire–Massachusetts border north of Boston, producing bright daylight sightings and a series of loud booms felt from Delaware to Montreal. The American Meteor Society (AMS) logged dozens of reports of a daytime fireball, ground shaking and a two‑pulse … Read more

Federal documents obtained by CBS News show the Trump administration is drafting a Department of Homeland Security regulation that would let U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) dismiss certain asylum applications without the customary in-person interview. The change, reported June 1, 2026, would allow USCIS officers to quickly deny cases filed more than one year … Read more

On Saturday afternoon around 2:11 p.m. Eastern Time, a meteor exploded over the waters off Massachusetts, producing a loud boom heard across the region and a bright daytime fireball seen by dozens. Preliminary reports to the American Meteor Society and satellite data from NOAA helped reconstruct the event; NASA estimated the breakup released energy equivalent … Read more

European leaders publicly denounced Israel’s widening military push into southern Lebanon after Israeli forces captured the medieval Beaufort (Qalaat al-Shaqif) castle and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to press deeper into territory held by Hezbollah. The condemnation, voiced by France, the UK and Germany, came amid an already fragile US-mediated truce that has been sporadically … Read more

Lead: Four nurses discharged from a hospital in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and an earlier recovery by a laboratory worker have raised cautious optimism about the Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak as the World Health Organization reported the recoveries on May 31. The outbreak has reached 282 confirmed cases and 42 deaths after 19 new positive … Read more

Lead On May 31, 2026, at about 2:11 p.m. Eastern Time a meteor fragmented high over the South Shore near Boston, producing a loud boom heard across Massachusetts and into neighboring states. NASA estimates the breakup released energy equivalent to roughly 300 tons of TNT and says fragments fell into Cape Cod Bay at a … Read more

Lead On May 31, 2026, at about 2:11 p.m. Eastern Time a meteor exploded over the waters off Massachusetts, producing a loud boom that was heard across much of the state and into neighboring states. NASA estimated the breakup released energy equivalent to roughly 300 tons of TNT, and preliminary tracking placed the fragmentation near … Read more

A phase 3 trial presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago shows that a daily oral drug, daraxonrasib, roughly doubled median survival for patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC). The randomized study enrolled about 500 patients whose cancer had already spread; those taking daraxonrasib survived a median 13.2 … Read more

Lead On Sunday 31 May 2026 at Roland-Garros, Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk defeated third seed and four-time champion Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-1 to reach her first Paris quarterfinal. The 15th seed ended Swiatek’s bid for a clay-court title after a one-hour 40-minute match and extended Kostyuk’s unbeaten clay streak this season to 16 matches. The result … Read more

Colombians voted on Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that could shift the country’s diplomatic and security orientation toward the United States. The ballot, held in Bogotá and across the country, follows months of public acrimony between outgoing left-wing President Gustavo Petro and US President Donald Trump over drug trafficking and US policy in … Read more